[Xastir] NWS warning overlays still used?

[J. Lance Cotton]

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:
> 
>>Are the old mapfiles that would color a whole county with transparent
>>legens like STORM WARNING or the like still used, or is the new colored
>>outline the replacement?
> 
> We still have the tinted weather alerts.  Those are determined via
> NOAA maps in the /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties directory, and
> having Shapelib installed.  Also, whether you configure using
> --with-dbfawk may affect whether they are displayed (or how they are
> displayed).  I haven't played with dbfawk enough yet to figure out
> whether everything is good there.  If you skip the dbfawk stuff the
> weather alerts should definitely work.

Yes, the tinted weather alerts work when --with-dbfawk is used to configure 
the sources.

With some massive rain that blew through here the past day or two, my county 
had 3 or 4 overlays... Even one overlay makes it hard to see the roads on 
the map. Would it be useful to change the overlay to something a bit less 
"covering"?

-Lance KJ5O
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